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Custom Bass Wait Support Group Needed!!! [Part 2]
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Is that board flatsawn wenge? Looks cool- I hate wenge fretboards on fretted instruments, but it sounds great on fretless!
it should look a little different in a week or so... so, better and more up to date pix to come!
Well I'm in. I have a fretless Alembic Europa 5 (EADGC) on order. It will have a maple/vermillion/ebony neck, macassar ebony top bookmatched to center/maple pinstripe/vermillion accent/maple pin/mahogany body. Also upgraded to a 3 position Q switch and chrome plated hardware. There's a few other minor details but that should get the mouths watering. Oh and here's the top 
Professor X,
You call "a couple of weeks" waiting?!?
(I keed, I keeed)
Beautiful design/wood etc!
You call "a couple of weeks" waiting?!?
(I keed, I keeed)
Beautiful design/wood etc!
Nice! What kind of tuning/specs makes an "alto bass" though? Don't think I've heard that term much if at all.
Jeronimofesto. I drew a picture for the bass, and he started building it after some tweaks. http://www.jcbasses.com
Nice! What kind of tuning/specs makes an "alto bass" though? Don't think I've heard that term much if at all.
I came up with the designation myself... tuning-wise it's between a tenor and a piccolo... tuned c#-f#-b-e (an octave higher than the C# that Jaquo tunes to)
I play with a sitar player who tuned his drone strings to C# so being able to brone myself is handy
Ok, cool. I think you mean 2 octaves higher though. Since 1 octave higher would be the C# at the 2nd fret of a standard B-string 
Ok, cool. I think you mean 2 octaves higher though. Since 1 octave higher would be the C# at the 2nd fret of a standard B-string
oops... yep you're correct... i'm tuned to the c# on the 4th fret of the A string... aka "Monkey Businessman tuning +1"
Hello all of you. Here are some pics of my first project!!!
It will be made complete from local woods
Peruvian walnut rough shaped wings
This will be the fretboard. The wood is quinilla (Manilkara bidentata known as bulletwood or peruvian cherry, janka 3190 and specific gravity 0.85). This wood is hard enough to be used as a fretless.
The neck will be made from purpleheart, walnut and pumaquiro (aspidosperma macrocarpon known as peruvian maple somewhere over internet, janka 1500 and specific gravity 0.67) and this is a pic from the pumaquiro blank
And this piece of Moena (Aniba ssp\Aniba Amazonica, Janka 1470 and specific gravity 0.6) will be the top and back
A close up of the moena blank
BTW, I have an extra blank of Moena to get 3 tops from it and another blank to get 2 fretboard blanks. If anyone is interested in getting some of it PM me.
It will be made complete from local woods
Peruvian walnut rough shaped wings
This will be the fretboard. The wood is quinilla (Manilkara bidentata known as bulletwood or peruvian cherry, janka 3190 and specific gravity 0.85). This wood is hard enough to be used as a fretless.
The neck will be made from purpleheart, walnut and pumaquiro (aspidosperma macrocarpon known as peruvian maple somewhere over internet, janka 1500 and specific gravity 0.67) and this is a pic from the pumaquiro blank
And this piece of Moena (Aniba ssp\Aniba Amazonica, Janka 1470 and specific gravity 0.6) will be the top and back
A close up of the moena blank
BTW, I have an extra blank of Moena to get 3 tops from it and another blank to get 2 fretboard blanks. If anyone is interested in getting some of it PM me.
Shipping today, I think.
Good thing I have Friday and Sunday off. When I got my MB2, I don't think I had many days off to enjoy it for a while.
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Shipping today, I think.
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